The simple answer is yes, anyone can make money writing articles

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and either selling them or publishing them to the online article directories and using them to sell affiliate products.  Another way is by publishing articles to online websites who will share advertising revenue with you.  To do this you usually have to have your own adsense account but there are a number of sites, for example Squidoo, where you can get a share of advertising revenue without having to have your own account.

To make a great deal of money purely with revenue sharing is going to involve a huge amount of work as you need to write a ton of articles on a whole host of different topics.  But you can do this gradually over a period of time and in the end the work will be worthwhile.

When you are writing for the online article directories it is important to publish original content. There is no need to sound too official when trying to write your high quality articles. Work on your article writing skills. Be creative when writing the title of your article and remember that this is the most important part.

Constantly work on the quality of your articles. If readers are looking at your articles but still not buying from your links, this should tell you that these folks are not suitably impressed by your content. It is also imperative that your articles contain interesting information and are of interest to the reader. Your marketing articles have to be well-written, and contain good quality information that is lacking in grammatical and spelling errors.

So the secret to writing profitable articles for your exact subject market and obtaining a profitable internet business is to write plenty of articles targeted to your market.

How?

Simple.

Those links you have in your resource boxes pointing to your site or the links in the content itself should all be anchored text link. And not any ole anchored text links will do. Those text links should be the keywords that your customers are using to find your website. By using these keywords, you’ll greatly increase your rankings in the search engines for these terms, thus more people will find your site when they go to a search engine.